Here is the original reporting by NPR on this story - npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-…

Apparently Columbus’ bestie wrote this, speaking of lying down with dogs. Sounds like a fun crowd to be uplifting on the values front.

"Anger is healthy...I think it is wise to show it. To be opposed to injustice at all times..."

Remember that movie, Wag the Dog? After apartheid, talk of mass slaughter of the whites has been everywhere, without facts or fruition in support. So they just started making the false claim. A strategy called, you gotta feed and water your white supremacists regularly

I will go to my GRAVE screaming that mainstream media pushing this “Trump supporters regret their vote” narrative is to redeem racists in the eyes of the public and keep the masses from rioting as people are deprived of food, healthcare, & dignity. It’s to evoke pity & mercy

But also just to foreground the racism. Ramaphosa jokes / ribs / suggests accountability about the elephant in the room. He’s taken seriously - by someone lacking the capacity to see a Black man as smart or capable. White supremacy. Not just for breakfast anymore.

Poverty is a policy choice. New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

Also this.

Oh look… Emmanuel and Samir Amin plagiarized Thomas Piketty’s idea 50 years before the latter came up with it.

A Windrush scandal victim’s compensation went from £300 to £170k after challenging it with a lawyer & a review has found that people have got less compensation due to claimants not receiving govt funding for legal advice. Other schemes get this funding theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Link to full EU leaked report on the Association Agreement with Israel and major breaches of human rights and international law, including “starvation, torture, indiscriminate attacks and apartheid.” The EU will discuss the agreement on Monday. drive.google.com/file/d/15nlwBv…

Reid: Why did the Iran hostage crisis take place? Todd: Because fundamentalist radicals took over the government Reid: They overthrew the shah who we imposed on Iran because the Dulles brothers, one at the CIA and one at the state department, decided that the oil beneath the

Des comprimés d’oxycodone, un puissant antidouleur classé comme narcotique, ont été découverts dans des sacs de farine destinés aux civil·es de Gaza, selon les autorités locales. Ces sacs provenaient de la Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), une organisation soutenue par les

In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.

This is not business as usual. My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today. It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine. Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must

BREAKING: 111 BBC staff have written to Tim Davie and Deborah Furness warning that the corporation is "often performing PR for the Israeli government and military". >300 other journalists have also signed the open letter, including me.

REMINDER: White people used to feed enslaved Black children in Florida to alligators as bait to fuel the industry. Particularly if they were disabled in any way. This practice was so common, it was featured on stamps through the United States Postal Service and candy ads

I watched this vote fall apart in real time. We all did. They didn’t have the numbers. The floor was in chaos. Defections were public. But in the end? They caved. Not because the bill got better. Not because the math changed. But because pressure, power, and backroom deals won